I’m planning to have an audiobook made of my upcoming novel, Peter’s Angel, and I am toying with a new idea I’d like some opinions on. I’d love to do full-cast but don’t have the resources to coordinate it right now, so I thought of a possible alternative - multiple narrators.
The book cycles through several POV characters (four guys and two girls), and the multiple POVs play an important part in the story. I was thinking of perhaps, instead of having one narrator read the entire thing, contracting a narrator for each POV character. Each scene from that character’s POV would be read by the same narrator.
The potential benefits to this are variety, easy distinction between scene switches, and a unique flavor for each POV character. (I could even go so far as to seek out some characters with accents.) It also wouldn’t be insanely hard to edit together (as opposed to full-cast). The possible con is disjointedness… The book is written in 3rd person, so the “voice” of the narration does not change between scenes, just the perspective, so switching narrators may not add as much flavor as I’m hoping. There is also the question of each narrator portraying dialog of the other characters differently.
I do plan to run a test chapter before committing, but I wanted to garner some opinions on the idea. Has anyone seen this done before? Thoughts on whether or not it would add enough to the novel to be worth it? Any one interested in picking up a character?
(Could use an Irish accent for Edwin if I can find somebody with one...)
Which reminds me... I'd love to know if anyone is interested in this! Because this is a professional audiobook your acceptance will be contingent on your voice talent and recording quality, but I'll consider anyone.
(or equipment of good enough quality).
I do know a guy down at school who can some great accents... 
Now idea how...)